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If you’re considering training for an endurance sport this year, you’re sure to have questions. Even if you’ve trained and competed in endurance sports in the past, you will likely have questions about how to train this year.We’ve created a new Training Programs Forum to promote local training programs.  If you have questions to pose to the community about training – this is the place to ask them and get answers. If you’d like to share a endurance training program with the community, please do! Any questions about how to post to the Forum, feel free to contact us at iwantto@heatitup.ca

HEAT Community Event: TRX Training, Wednesday January 27th, 6:30-7:30pm, $6/each, Fitt Gym, 4-60 Centre Street North, Huntsville, Map, RSVP

I was introduced to TRX training about a year ago,  and discovered that it is a simple yet amazing tool for creating a great workout. It’s hard to explain, so I recommend that you check out the video below, or some of the exercise videos on the TRX website.  This is a great opportunity to give TRX a try, in a safe, instructor led class, just for the HEAT community. There are 8 TRX’s in the studio, so we can start with a class of 8, and if there is more interest we’ll host another session. The price for this event is $6 per person to cover the cost of the instructor. I hope you’ll join me in a fun evening of training at Fitt Gym!

Please RSVP to iwantto@heatitup.ca

This video shows a few of the exercises, the Atomic Pushup (my introduction to TRX) is in the middle…

Rob. (RSVP)

I spent Saturday and Sunday at Arrowhead Provincial Park on the ski and snowshoe trails. Lots of classic and skate skiing and snowshoe running and racers and race officials out training for upcoming races.

Neil Jefferson and I ran the Hardwood Hills 3km loop in snowshoes on Saturday afternoon. It was absolutely beautiful with temperature of -14 °C and sunny blue skies. His running snowshoes being much smaller than my more traditional snowshoes seemed to be of some advantage, not to mention is long Kiwi legs propelling him in huge leaps down the hills Looking forward to participating in the upcoming Snowshoe race on January 24th. Nothing like snowshoe running to pin your heart rate in the upper 90%.

I also got a short skate ski in and ran across a few racers getting ready for the local Muskoka Loppet and Canadian Ski Marathon in Quebec. Jimmy Brendish was out on his skate skis as well, and Dave Gibson put in a huge effort with 80km on his classic skis. Of course, the ever present Steve Jones was out instructing for the Arrowhead Nordic Ski Club Ski for Fitness class on Saturday.

Sunday morning, the Six Feet Under adventure racers got in a 11km run and crossed paths with the 9am Sunday morning running group that meets at the Tim Hortons on Hwy 60.

Sunday afternoon, the Ontario Winter Games crew were out doing a dry run for the games next weekend. The sprint races are on Saturday Jan 16th, while the distance races are on the morning of Sunday Jan 17th. (Draft Schedule) This had the Arrowhead Race Centre team out to race the new Sprint loop – an exciting, fast paced event to watch.

Register now for the Muskoka Loppet or the Snowshoe Races.

Hope you had a great weekend!

Rob Horton

Here’s an update from Neil Jefferson…

There are now three races. The course is the Lookout Trail (now known as Hardwood Hill Trail), which is a 3km loop. We will have: 3km individual, 9km individual, 9km relay

The relay is for two or three person teams. The rule is that each team can only use one pair of snowshoes. That should make for a fun race.

For the draw prizes: two pair of GV cat Trail running snowshoes ($180 pr), gaiters, poles, gift certificates, and lots more.

For place prizes : 3km- $25 gift certificates from Running Free (1st place male, 1st place female), 9km individual -$50 gift cert. from Running Free (1st male, 1st female), 9km relay – working on it.

So I encourage you to put together a team or race as an individual. Let me know if you need snowshoes. I have one pair that someone can borrow. Also, AO and Sharpley’s rent them.

Register Now

If you aren’t able to race, I do need some volunteers. Call me at 789-9716 or email – jumanji96@hotmail.com

One of the goals of HEAT is to encourage members of the community to train together. After many discussions about the best way to make this work, we decided to install a Forum module. The Forum module allows you to register and post information you want to share with the HEAT community.

Want to go cross-country skiing on Saturday afternoon, but don’t want to go alone? Post a note to the ‘Join Me…I’m going Cross-Country Skiing‘ Forum Group with the details: where, when, how far you plan to go and invite members to join you. Want to keep up to date with who’s doing what? Subscribe to the Join Me… Group RSS feed.

We’ll soon be adding other forum groups to help give you a voice and get the ball rolling on a number of new training groups.

To get started, all you need to do is register.